Buckingham Choral Society has recently extended its membership to more than 100 singers.
Our current membership is drawn from Buckingham town and the surrounding area, including Adstock, Brackley, Bugbrooke, Chackmore, Deanshanger, Finmere, Gawcott, Leckhampstead, Little Horwood, Maids Moreton, Nash, North Marston, Padbury, Preston Bissett, Shalstone, Silverstone, Stony Stratford, Swanbourne, Stowe, Tingewick, Towcester, Twyford, Water Stratford, Winslow, and even as far afield as Bletchley and Milton Keynes.
Rehearsals for the Summer 2010 concert on 3rd July start on Tuesday 13th April 2009 at 7:30pm and each week thereafter in the Radcliffe Centre, Well Street, Buckingham.

	Julian Mann - Musical Director Julian was appointed as the Society’s Musical Director in January 2009. He was educated at Kelly College in Tavistock, Devon and then attended Trinity College of Music in London, where he studied Organ, Piano and Conducting. He was then awarded a scholarship by the college leading to his admission as a Fellow of the College. He is currently Assistant Head Teacher at Weston Favell School in Northampton, having previously been Director of Music at Akeley Wood School, Buckingham. Julian has also been Musical Director of Luton Choral Society and Organist and Choirmaster at All Hallows in Wellingborough, and has wide experience of conducting both sacred and secular music.
	Craig Greene - Répétiteur Craig began playing trumpet at the age of nine andpiano at the age of eleven as a student of the Milton Keynes Music Service to which he was offered a scholarship studying under the pianist Maia Griffin. He was a trumpet player in the National Children’s Orchestra for two years having studied with Alan Jenkin, also at the Milton Keynes Music Service. Craig played with Stantonbury Brass Band for eight years as a solo cornet player as well as appearing as soloist with the band on numerous occasions. In 2003 he was awarded a scholarship to Stowe. Since then he has gone on to win numerous awards and prizes as a pianist and trumpeter. He acquired the Diploma of the ABRSM with distinction in 2005 on piano and repeated this feat on trumpet a year later. In 2006 he won the Thames Valley Young Musician of the Year Award, then in January 2007 the London and Southern Counties district of the Lions European Musical Competition, representing the Lions Club of Bletchley. In the summer of 2006 Craig attended the Castelfranc Piano Summer School in France, with a scholarship, upon the invitation of the pianist Paul Roberts. In December 2006 Craig was offered scholarships to study piano at the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, and the Royal Northern College of Music. He also obtained a place at Christ Church, Oxford, where he is now completing his undergraduate degree and has since been awarded an instrumental exhibition and an academic scholarship to the College. In addition to his studies at Oxford he takes piano tuition with the renowned Russian pianist Dmitri Alexeev at the Royal College of Music in London. Craig is in regular demand as a concerto soloist, having performed a variety of concertos including the Grieg Piano Concerto, Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto and others, including those by Saint-Saens, Mozart, Gershwin, and Beethoven. In February 2008 Craig won the Oxford University Philharmonia Conducting Competition and was elected their principal conductor. In September 2008 Craig appeared as soloist with the Milton Keynes City Orchestra, playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor under the baton of the renowned conductor, Sian Edwards, in a concert for the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire. This concert was in the presence of His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent. More recent performances have included a recital at the University of Buckingham and the first performance of a new edition of Kotzwara’s Battle of Prague, edited by Paul Harris, at the European Piano eachers Association. From September 2010 Craig will study full time with Dmitri Alexeev at the Royal College of Music.
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